The Timbuktu school for nomads : lessons from the people of the desert, Nicholas Jubber

Once Timbuktu was the seat of African civilization and the world's richest city, romanticised by the great 16th century traveller Leo Africanus, now the middle of nowhere. Half a millennium later, guided by these famous writings, Nicholas Jubber set out on a journey which crossed the Atlas Mountains, the Western Sahara and the Niger River to uncover the mythic city, liberated after a full year under the black flag of jihadis. It is a part of the world that remains teeth-janglingly dangerous, as witnessed in further terrorist atrocities in Mali in 2015. He was taken, in disguise, into the desert to learn the age-old skills of the nomads and found out why their continued existence is so essential to the Sahara and yet so under threat. Jubber tells a deeply moving story of resilience and compassion in the face of terror as well as a grand adventure tale across the sands of the Sahara

Once Timbuktu was the seat of African civilization and the world's richest city, romanticised by the great 16th century traveller Leo Africanus, now the middle of nowhere. Half a millennium later, guided by these famous writings, Nicholas Jubber set out on a journey which crossed the Atlas Mountains, the Western Sahara and the Niger River to uncover the mythic city, liberated after a full year under the black flag of jihadis. It is a part of the world that remains teeth-janglingly dangerous, as witnessed in further terrorist atrocities in Mali in 2015. He was taken, in disguise, into the desert to learn the age-old skills of the nomads and found out why their continued existence is so essential to the Sahara and yet so under threat. Jubber tells a deeply moving story of resilience and compassion in the face of terror as well as a grand adventure tale across the sands of the Sahara

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YDX

Dewey number

916.1

Illustrations

illustrations

maps

plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DT165.2

LC item number

.J83 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult

The Timbuktu school for nomads : lessons from the people of the desert, Nicholas Jubber

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The Timbuktu school for nomads : lessons from the people of the desert, Nicholas Jubber